Articles written by Jim Osborn
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General J.E.B. Stuart
General Jeb Stuart was an expert in reconnaissance and the use of cavalry to support offensive assaults during the U.S. Civil War.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forrest was a self-made millionaire who's military accomplishments revolutionized mobile horseback hit and run warfare tactics and set the standard for mobile infantry.
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General George Crook
George Crook was a career military man who distinguished himself in the Civil War and the Indian Wars and was a man of honor who was given the name Grey Fox by Geronimo.
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Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was the last of the great War Chiefs to defy the U.S. Government and try to preserve his people's ancestral home and heritage.
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Geronimo
Geronimo was the most famous Apache warrior that ever lived and he gave both the Mexican and American Governments trouble for nearly 20 years.
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Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur served many roles in his military career, including Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, American General, and Field Marshal of the Philippines.
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Weight-Loss Dangers
America is being targeted by unscrupulous marketers who's only agenda is profit. Foreign companies in China, Brazil, and Peru are importing unsafe diet products.
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Robert Pickton
Willy Pickton preyed upon drug-addicts and prostitutes and mutilated the corpses and even fed some of the remains to his hogs.
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Jerry Brudos
Brudos was mentally ill and was victimized by his mother who dressed him as a girl. He developed schizophrenia and collected the shoes and body parts of his victims.
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Joe Ball
Joe Ball was an early serial killer, even before the phrase was coined. He was reputed to have butchered his victims and fed them to his pet alligators.
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John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
John Wayne Gacy was a master of hiding his true self behind the make-up of "Pogo the Clown" but eventually his murderous deeds were discovered.
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Aileen Wuornos
The dead bodies of middle-aged men began turning up in rural locations in Florida and authorities suspected a female serial killer was on the loose.
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Richard Ramirez
From June of 1984-August of 1985 Los Angeles was terrorized by a ghoulish predator that struck in the middle of the night committing murder, rape, and robbery.
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Gary Ridgway
Not since Ted Bundy haunted the Pacific Northwest in the 70's had there been such a successful and elusive predator and murderer of women like Ridgway.
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Ted Bundy-Serial Killer
Serial killer Ted Bundy lured unsuspecting girls to his car using many ruses and then struck them with a crow bar and transported them to a safe location for slaughter.
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Bob Dalton - Kansas Outlaw
Bob Dalton became the outlaw leader of a family crime gang and terrorized the Kansas territory
for two years before meeting a violent end.
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William "Curly Bill" Brocius
During the late 1800's in the Arizona territory, a vicious gang of outlaws "The Cow-Boys" emerged and were the first known crime organization in American history.
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Charles Arthur Floyd
Pretty Boy Floyd was one of many depression-era bandits that emerged during hard economic times in America and chose robbery and murder as a way of life.
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Lester Gillis
Although small in stature "Baby Face Nelson" was notorious for his violent temper and his intense hate for officers of the law.
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George Kelly Barnes
Machine Gun Kelly would be among the first notable bandits to emerge during the period of time in American history called The Mid-West Crime Wave
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Clyde Barrow
Clyde Barrow became one of the most infamous and deadly outlaws of his time and led law enforcement on a bloody chase for several years until one day down in Louisiana
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John Dillinger
John Dillinger was the best-known American bank robber of the 20th century up until he was shot dead on July 22, 1934 by the F.B.I
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass proved that one man can make a difference. He championed the cause of freedom and liberty for all men, regardless of color.
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Charles "Black Bart" Bowles
Black Bart terrorized the West Coast and Wells Fargo Stage Lines for eight years by robbing 28 stages with a shotgun and leaving poems as his calling card.
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Sam Bass: American Outlaw
Sam Bass tried his hand at honest labor but soon discovered horse racing and crime.
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Luke Short
Luke Short, gambler and American Gunfighter. He gained his unusual nickname because he always aimed for the chest and never for the head making the undertakers job easier
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Robert "Clay" Allison
Clay Allison was one of the most ill tempered, violent, and psychotic killers of his era and coined the phrase "Shootist"
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Jesse James
Jesse James was the most famous old west outlaw in American history and although a heartless killer he is fondly remembered by history as a folk hero.
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Butch Cassidy
Butch Cassidy was an American outlaw who became a folk hero to many poor rural cattle ranchers and settlers who were being squeezed out by big Cattle Barons.
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Billy the Kid
Few American West gunfighters have been as commercialized or romanticized as Billy the Kid. Simply, he was a violent young man, who grew up in a brutal time in history
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Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson
Kit Carson spent years helping stop the "Indian Uprisings" and to create a safe environment for white American settlers, unfortunately at the expense of native Americans.
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Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson
Bat Masterson was one of the most renowned "Lawmen of the Old West" but was not the cold-blooded killer that so many false legends and counterfeit reports claimed.
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Martha "Calamity Jane" Cannary
Calamity Jane was a professional Indian Scout, marksman, showman, and personal friend of Wild Bill Hickok who broke through the gender barriers of her time.
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William "Buffalo Bill" Cody
Buffalo Bill was a famous scout, hunter, rights advocate, and a colorful showman who chronicled "The America Wild West" in exhibition and pageant for the world to see.
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James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok
American Legend Wild Bill Hickok was an honorable man who was a war hero, scout, gambler, and lawman who spend most of his life protecting others from crime and injustice
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John Wesley Hardin:The Gunfighter
In the 1800's in the American Wild West, John Wesley Hardin was an active and prolific cold-blooded killer who shot over 40 men
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John "Doc" Holliday
Doc Holliday was diagnosed with tuberculosis early in life and was a fatalist whose intentions were to go out in a blaze of glory.
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Wyatt Earp:Frontier Justice
Wyatt Earp was a man of contradictions, hell-raiser, brawler, gambler, miner, saloon owner and most famously known as a lawman with a vendetta!
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Anne Frank and the Frank Family
Ann Frank was an intelligent, young, aspiring writer who got caught up in a world gone mad with hate
and anti-Semitism. But her diary would survive the war!
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Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels helped The Nazi Party convince a noble country that war and murder were acceptable and necessary.
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U.S. General George Patton
A fearless military leader who was always a controversial soldier and although one of the greatest military commanders in U.S. history was a very flawed man.
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Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox
Rommel was a brilliant tactician and symbolized Germany's military might. He was arguably the greatest German commander of WW II.
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U.S. President Harry S. Truman
Truman was a complex man and the man that will be judged by time for using Nuclear weapons
"The Manhattan Project" for the first time.
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Sir Winston Churchill: The British Bulldog
Churchill rose from the House of Commons to become Prime Minister and is considered the greatest British leader of the 20th Century.
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Josef Mengele Murderer of Auschwitz
Notorious Nazi Murderer "The Angel of Death" Commits Unspeakable Atrocities at Auschwitz and Flees to South America to Freedom and a New Life!
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The B-17 Flying Fortress
The durability and versatility of the B-17 altered the outcome of the War with a long-range bomber capable of daring daytime assaults and a New Type of Precision Bombing
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The Bataan Death March
Japanese General Masaharu Homma Defeats American and Philippine forces and earns the name "Beast of Bataan" and Takes the Rap for the Infamous Bataan Death March
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Allied Armies Cross the Rhine
WW Two Allied Engineers led Invasion of Germany by constructing Pontoon and Treadway Bridges across the Rhine River
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The Liberation of Paris
In 1944, Paris was occupied and slated for destruction, but the German Governer in charge refused to carry out Hitler's insane orders, General Dietrich von Choltitz
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Russian Military Aggression Costly
Joseph Stalin who ruled Russia with a brutal and unyielding fist was slow to accept the inevitability of the pending invasion of Germany.
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Italy's Fascist Dictator
Benito Mussolini seized control of the Italian Government in 1922 established his Italian Secret Police and would hold a vice-like stranglehold on Italy for 21 years.
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U-Boat Menace Ended by Technology
Since 1939 Karl Donitz's U-Boats had been the terror of the seven seas but innovative new technology would end "The Sea Wolves" reign of destruction.
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Hitler's Sea Wolves
Admiral Karl Donitz's mauraders terrorized the seas with u-boats during World War II. They would sink thousands of war ships, merchant vessels and even passenger ships.
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Why did Japan go to War?
The reasons behind Japans aggression during World War II is not as well known as its German counterpart, so what prompted "The Empire of the Sun" to wage war?
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The P-51 Mustang
In 1944 the P-51 Mustang changed the war! Nothing the Nazi's could put in the sky could stop it! Fast, accurate and agile the Mustang racked havoc on the Luftwaffe.
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The Paper Bombing of Germany.
In 1939 England declared war on Germany, but the first eight months of World War II were marred with conservative politics, then Winston Churchill took office!
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The Junkers 87 Dive Bomber (1935)
Hitler had Hermann Pohlman design the Junkers 87 dive bomber specifically to be used as a weapon of terror. The Stuka was to drastically change warfare forever.
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French Aviation History
In France in 1783 the Montgolfier brothers are the first in history to leave the earths surface in a balloon, aviation madness was born! The next step, Powered Flight!
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First Women Pilots!
Breaking into aviation was no easy chore for females at the turn of the century. Many were forced to take chances and risk their lives to further their cause.
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